He was stunned. "She's divorcing me? he thought. She's the one who created the problems by her dishonesty. She's divorcing me?

HIS FEARS

"This is simply not going to work out", Michael said to himself.

"I can't fix our marriage alone, and my wife has no interest in trying to work things out with me. I think that I'll be better off working on trying to protect myself."

He has saved quite a bit in a 401(k), an IRA, a pension, and in cash during his 19 years of working in New York, and he doesn't want to lose it all to his wife. He said that it's bad enough that she stole the $150,000 recently.

Nor does he want to give away all of the stock and RSU's that he has received.